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How the Search for Immortality Killed the First Emperor of China
No man had ever risen as high as Qin Shi Huang. He was the first emperor of China - the first man to conquer its seven kingdoms and rule them all. There was only one threat left for him to overcome: death itself.
Mark Oliver - 15/06/2018 - 02:03
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Why and How Different Cultures Bury the Dead
... and it is evidence of our common nature of compassion, religion, and humanity.” Grotus declared that denial of ...
ancient-origins - 04/06/2014 - 00:05
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For Sale In Britain: A Small Ancient Man With A Colossal Penis
... with Cernunnos , the powerful fertility deity of Celtic religion that was worshipped as the “lord of wild ...
ashley cowie - 02/03/2023 - 17:59
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Mount Pleasant And Other Mega-Henges: Evidence Of A Construction Boom
... to a rebellion, a collapse in belief in the leaders or the religion, that created a vacuum in which new people could ...
ashley cowie - 06/11/2020 - 17:56
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Sacrificed Animals Dressed as Warriors Point to Tomb of Aztec King
... Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec solar deity and war god. Religion of the Aztecs: Keeping the Balance in an ...
ashley cowie - 26/11/2022 - 02:01
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The Chivalric Order of the Dragon, the Medieval Shield of Christendom
... of Christ, and of our kingdoms, and of his holy and saving religion of faith, under the banner of the triumphant Cross ...
Aleksa Vučković - 16/10/2021 - 22:39
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Top Stories Last Week: Roman Oddity, Unique Skulls and A $3/4million Coin
... to 337 AD), remembered for making Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. The detectorists have dubbed ...
ancient-origins - 25/01/2022 - 01:00
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The Hidden Story of Poland: What Happened to the Forgotten Kingdom of Lechia?
... the people believed that their only support must come from religion - because their nation “did not mean anything” ...
ancient-origins - 14/09/2016 - 14:49
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Entire Family Executed by First Female Emperor of China: Tomb Reveals Bloody Past
... her own family) through death or exile; she manipulated religion and is said to have used propaganda to secure her ...
lizleafloor - 03/11/2015 - 23:44
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Alternative-Right Claims to March in Step with the Knights Templar – This is Fake History
... as racist murderers who hate Muslims and openly mock religion. Scott’s film depicts a Hospitaller knight as a ...
ancient-origins - 13/12/2017 - 18:56
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Radiocarbon Dating Pins Construction of Por-Bajin Island Fortress to 777 AD
... was in charge. He had converted to Manichaeism , a gnostic religion that many opposed. Indeed, Bögü Khan was killed ...
ancient-origins - 09/06/2020 - 22:56
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Thucydides Gave Amazing Insight into War That Shook The Aegean World for Decades
... more generally – although there is still more religion in Thucydides than one may think. Instead, he ...
ancient-origins - 19/06/2017 - 13:50
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Five things the ancient Greeks can teach us about medicine today
... 4. We all want to know “why?” Why me? Why now? Ancient religion blamed the gods, or your failings in not honoring ...
ancient-origins - 16/08/2016 - 03:43
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The ancient system of government in the land of the Pharaohs
... did not exist in a vacuum, but was intertwined with religion, foreign relations, and the economy. Despite periods ...
dhwty - 01/04/2014 - 03:02
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Rare Second Temple Bronze Tools Uncovered Near the Sea of Galilee
2000-year-old bronze artifacts in the form of a can and a shovel have been discovered in Magdala, situated North West of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee.
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) digging in the Galilee region have discovered temple vestiges dating to the second temple period in Magdala, situated on the western banks of the Sea of Gennesaret, the IAA said in a press release on Tuesday.
Sam Bostrom - 05/04/2016 - 21:57
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Master Architects of Sardinia: The Sacred Well of Santa Cristina
... of fertility played an important role in Nuragic religion, and that they had a water cult that invoked the ...
dhwty - 09/01/2021 - 17:11
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World’s Oldest Slave Cemetery May Have Been Found
Archaeologists claim that the remains found in a burial site excavated in 2009 in the Canary Islands could be some of the earliest known slave remains in the world. They were originally thought to belong to predecessors of slaves trafficked from Africa to America and new information provides startling details about their tragic lives and deaths.
Theodoros Karasavvas - 18/01/2017 - 21:53
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Celestial Goddess Selene: The Ancient Greek Goddess of the Moon
... with her brother Helios (not uncommon in the Greek religion) known as the Horae, or the seasons. Selene (also ...
Riley Winters - 15/11/2022 - 00:58
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Rare Inscribed Medieval Era Copper Plates Found at Srisailam Temple
... the Chalcolithic period onward. With the development of religion in India, the linga was shown with the yoni , ...
Sahir - 15/06/2021 - 22:57
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Jewish-styled Alexander Legends Found on Silver Bowl from Tibet
... Truth about Circumcision: It Was All About Rites and Religion Oldest Examples of ‘Tree of Life’ Designs ...
Sahir - 13/04/2022 - 15:06